I hope that there are enough people interested in aviation so that we might have our own little quiz. To start the ball rolling I would like to ask 'When was the last instance of a piston engined fighter aircraft shooting down another piston engined fighter'?
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I have to imagine it was in some little bush country civil war in either S. America or africa I'll say sometime in the 90's heck with the way yugoslavia break-off have gone at each other I imgaine they possible could have had Yak's shooting at each other, as reacently as 2000.
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Originally posted by glyn View Post...'When was the last instance of a piston engined fighter aircraft shooting down another piston engined fighter'?"We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way." -President Barack Obama 11/25/2008
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Originally posted by glyn View PostEr, I should mention that the loser was a Salvadorian P-51 and the victor a Honduran F4U Corsair!
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Originally posted by Bluesman View PostBoth American-built, or was one or both license-built somewhere else? I only ask because I was imagining Vought employees sending snide letters to their North American counterparts...Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.
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Next question, my fellow WABbers:
I want to know about the first intercontinental flight. All you have to provide is the name of the pilot, date, aircraft type and the start and end points.:) Come on, don't be shy!Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.
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